Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I have this old ’57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I’ll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, ‚cluh-CLICK-click.‘ That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that’s what I’m into.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

Life is precious.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

I only act from my heart.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

My childhood was endless – from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I used to live on one candy bar a day – it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

I was adored once too.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.